remains of the day 564 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 I picked 4-3-3 as my favorite formation for our players even before the season started. I liked 4-2-3-1 just like the next person, but I think 4-3-3 suits our players much better. I do hope Mourinho gives this formation a few more goes and maybe he'll be convinced it works better? I mean it's my personal preference and I think we played well in a few matches we played 4-2-3-1 and if he sticks with it we can still be a solid team, but the 4-3-3 is so tempting and so perfect for us!Agree 100%! I just think it addresses and mitigates a lot of the issues the team has been struggling with, particularly in centre midfield. Some people were against switching to that formation because of Mata but in my opinion it's a more suitable system for the team than the 4-2-3-1. Certainly hope it's tried out more often, especially against better quality opposition! If it is used more, I would imagine Kdb would find himself in a more favourable position to start as he'll most likely to be competing with Lamps and he'll excel in that position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoSalah 8,886 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Watched the game back again, our pressing was excellent, the first times its really been effective this season. Hope to see the same against Basel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 So much depth in our squad! Willian 30 million pound man on the bench with juan mata our best player in the last two season and also schurlle the 3 of them will be in the starting eleven in any other bpl team for sure. and i forgot to mention KDB who is seems to be out of jose plans. do you think oscar is our best player so far this season? Oscar is our best player this season for me, without doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellzfresh 7,229 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 what was our away support like at the ground?We have the best away support in the league IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted November 25, 2013 Author Share Posted November 25, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8hxFtqO84whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JQ0K7hRBPMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu4-5Ht0zog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Oscar trying his best to speak in English, fair play to him, what a guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzchap 8,966 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 it all depends on the manager and your team. i remember demel going past azpi-hazard and then frank in the 80th or so minute. this is just to point out that hazard was defending deep even in the 80th minute and not taking things lightly. and a big cheers to him for that. compare this to city. their front 4 have been set to just play attacking football. nasri/navas/silva dont help their fullbacks the way our wingers do, not even half of it.look at oscar and how deep he plays sometimes to help our pivot, u dont see that with aguero. and i feel this is one of the main reasons for city's pathetic away form. u can argue that we have not been much better than them away from home but our away fixtures so far have been tough (united, everton, spurs, newcastle) compared to city's (cardiff,sunderland,villa,stoke and just one good team in us). inspite of these fixtures we have managed to rack up more points.so as i see, its the way, u r setup to play that will be the difference. mazacar played all this fancy football last year but at what cost? i personally would rather see us grinding winS than see us play beautiful football in one game and then losing the next one.Fair point Good call on City's away matches - you would have expected them to beat those teams - and I guess their midfield did look poor against the Spuds, just lucky the Spuds couldn't score in a brothel at the moment...It's a tough call though - 50% of me wants to win at all costs, the other 50% wants to see flamboyant attacking football... I guess this is where Roman got to a few years back.. Oh well - let's see what happens next match - like I said - I'm probably expecting too much... I did go back and watch his opening 4 games last season and he is a different player this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Driver 503 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Just shows you how wrong people can be, Lampard was man of the match by a dist. every stat shows that except the good old Talk Chelsea stat . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolayes 14,489 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 Just shows you how wrong people can be, Lampard was man of the match by a dist. every stat shows that except the good old Talk Chelsea stat .Oscar was a decent call as was Frank for a sec I thought it must have gone to Mikel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Driver 503 Posted November 25, 2013 Share Posted November 25, 2013 You are right Oscar was a decent call ,only one MOM though . What happened to all those stat graphs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Driver 503 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Goals, Lampard 2, Oscar 1Penalties won Oscar 1, Lampard 0Passing - Lampard 85%-Oscar 71%,Key Passes-Lampard 4, Oscar-3Crosses-Lampard 33%, Oscar 0%Long balls-Lampard 3/3, Oscar 1/1Tackles-Oscar 7, Lampard 3,Fouls-Oscar 3, Lampard 0Interceptions-Lampard 1, Oscar, 0Dribbles-Lampard 1, Oscar, 0Clearances- Lampard 4, Oscar 1Dispossessed and turnovers- Oscar 4-, Lampard 0Statistically, Lampard had a much better game and in reality yes, he was excellent. Both whoscored and Sqwaka gave Lampard easily MOTM and he would have had so even without his second goal. You also act as if Oscar created things by himself as if Hazard's beautiful flick didn't sent him alone on net. (Lampard's pass set that up BTW) . Oscar is also a fine pick for MOTM, he was great, but I'm sick of people always downplaying Lampard's play. (For Lampard, great games become good games, good games become mediocre games, and mediocre games become awful games) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndersonBLUE 819 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 We have the best away support in the league IMOYeah I only asked cause someone in the pub said West Ham were outsinging chelsea even at 3-0.Could just be all talk who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Considering at 3-0 most of them had f.ucked off I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellzfresh 7,229 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Yeah I only asked cause someone in the pub said West Ham were outsinging chelsea even at 3-0.Could just be all talk who knows.Not a chance. Many of them left by then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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